The reality is, that it’s no longer socially acceptable to call someone a ‘retard’ or a ‘spastic’, it’s now almost genetically implanted in people to not use such terms to describe people, perhaps in a generations time the same thing will happen with the autism word.
As for Jordan Peterson, that man says a lot of intelligent things, I will give him that, but I can’t even begin to describe the amount of hurt you feel when you are judged and stereotyped by people you don’t know.
As I said before, it’s all fine to say ‘stick and stones break your bones names don’t hurt’ but Hitler also said tell people a lie enough times and they will eventually believe it, so if you constantly lie about and insult people on the spectrum and whatnot, people these days are cruel, they will eventually believe it, and start treating people they don’t know poorly.
The people who argue for freedom of speech, do themselves no favors when the only thing they want free speech is to say offensive/hurtful things about people they don’t know, rather than legitimate criticism of government policy and so on.